Hippias Philosophers Philosophy
Some brief notes on Hippias' attempt to square the circle using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of pi."
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- Top/Science/Math/Geometry
- Top/Society/Philosophy/History of Philosophy/Ancient/Sophism
- Top/Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/S/Socrates
- Hippias of Elis - Concise scholarly biography of this discoverer of the quadratrix, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics.
- Hippias - Wikipedia entry on this ancient polymath, including some material from the 1911 Britannica.
- Hippias's Quadratrix - Some brief notes on Hippias\\' attempt to square the circle h using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of h pi."
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